Analog Advocate Gifts

This is a 'text book' it's a bit like a website but printed on paper.

"It's exhilarating to know we are riding the crest of the digital media revolution."

"Actually write thank-you notes to my best customers with a pen and paper? But I wouldn't have spell check!"

Books and Phones

Raft of the Luddites

"He's taught himself work-life balance."

'Where would you recommend for a tech-free experience.'

"Uh-oh...it's starting to delegate work to me."

"I fear one day our jobs will be taken over by technology."

"My blood pressure stays fine, Doctor, as long as nothing comes between me and my fishing."

I.T. Fear

"I cancelled the cable, turned off the phone, shut down the internet. . . where the hell am I??"

'It was only 500 yds across but as he visualised the GPS blind spot the risks seemed immense.'

"You'll do everything...accounting, marketing, manufacturing...with no pay or benefits...and three years from now we'll trade you in for a newer, sexier model."

AI Safety Officer

"Midtown Vinyl. Vintage albums + EPs. Midtown Ink. Vintage books + newspapers."

"Your job is to build an app that replaces you."

Employee of the Month

"The boss expects us all to be robots."

"Before automation how did humans endure work?"

People and robots

"Nice design but you haven't quite mastered the technology!"

Smith and Hobson: People replacing people with apps and robots since 2009.

'I don't want to talk to any flunkies. Put me straight through to the computer.'

"We were looking for a non-hackable, energy efficient data center. Thanks for the file cabinet."

"Yes, we still love print, don't we?"

'If you don't want to go digital, fine, but if you're going to store film in our cooler you have to save room some soda and beer."

'Stupido Digitale! Chucka me a sloppy brush, there's a gooda chap.'

"The Fad Herald cometh." "Wasn't he just here? Why's he back so soon?" "Hear ye, hear ye. The following is out: Human labor. The following are now in: Pizza delivery droids, Amazon delivery drones, and replacing all blue- and white-collar jobs with cheap, highly productive robot labor... ...robots who never sleep, never ask for a raise, and never complain about harassment... ...because they're too busy plotting the extinction of the meatbag species. We will isolate you. Alienate you from one

'He's not a 'bad' phone. He's just not a 'smart' phone.'

"Question ... what is my motivation to ever leave this armchair?"

'I've taken the liberty of simplifying the latest data.'

"It's been in self-drive mode all morning, maybe it's not programmed to recognise stop signs?"

"It's called a mobile... but I've been here an hour and have yet to see it move."

"The best thing is he works without WiFi or a data plan."